bloodwortn.
/ˈblʌdwəːt/, U.S. /ˈblədˌwərt/, /ˈblədˌwɔrt/ Any of various plants having red roots or foliage, or (esp. formerly) used medicinally to staunch bleeding, as shepherd's purse ( Capsella bursa-pastoris), the red dock ( Rumex sanguineus), burnet ( Sanguisorba officinalis), and (in North America) the bloodroot ( Sanguinaria canadensis). Cf. sanguinary n.1 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun]
heatha700
beeworteOE
leversc725
springworteOE
clotec1000
halswortc1000
sengreenc1000
bottle?a1200
bird's-tonguea1300
bloodworta1300
faverolea1300
vetchc1300
pimpernel1378
oniona1398
bird's nest?a1425
adder's grassc1450
cockheada1500
ambrosia1525
fleawort1548
son before the father1552
crow-toe1562
basil1578
bird's-foot1578
bloodroot1578
throatwort1578
phalangium1608
yew1653
chalcedon1664
dittany1676
bleeding heart1691
felon-wort1706
hedgehog1712
land caltrops1727
old man's beard1731
loosestrife1760
Solomon's seal1760
fireweed1764
desert rose1792
star of Bethlehem1793
hen and chickens1794
Aaron's beard1820
felon-grass1824
arrowroot1835
snake-root1856
firebush1858
tick-seed1860
bird's eye1863
burning bush1866
rat-tail1871
lamb's earsa1876
lamb's tongue plant1882
tar-weed1884
Tom Thumb1886
parrotbeak1890
stinkweed1932
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts
boneworteOE
springworteOE
atterlothec1000
halswortc1000
bruisewortOE
motherworta1200
panax?a1200
bloodworta1300
serpentinea1400
tutsana1400
wartworta1400
wormseeda1400
grace of God?c1400
nailworta1425
Gratia Dei?c1425
sanguinaryc1440
panacea1522
parthenium1548
woundwort1548
wart-weed1573
cardiaca1578
hermodactyl1578
panacea1590
holy seed1597
whitlow-grass1597
feverwort1611
fever and ague root1676
rattlesnake root1682
snake-root1712
cancer root1714
fever-root1739
strongback1739
rheumatism root1835
heal-all1853
wound-weed1857
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 556/27 Bursa pastoris, sanguinarie, blodwurt.
1526 Grete Herball cccliii. sig. Tvv/2 Persicaria... Some call it sanguynary or blodeworte bycause it draweth blode in places that it is rubbed on.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 3 A certen Bloodeworth growith ther wher the Bloode was shedde.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bludwort herb, or that which stoppeth bloud.
1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Bloodwort, that is bloodie Docke.
1650 T. Venner Via Recta (ed. 3) 197 Bloudwort..is well known by the red strakie colour of the leaves.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 405 Lapathum Sanguineum..Bloodwort, cleanses the blood much.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 331 Poligona, knot-grass, swine's-grass, or blood-wort..is very pernicious to sheep.
c1762 T. Lamboll Let. in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 575 The following seeds, vizt: Persicaria, Blood-wort, [etc.].
1830 Withering's Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 7) II. iv. 235 Sanguisorba officinalis, Wild Burnet, Bloodwort.
1844 H. Murray United States of Amer. III. 226 The Bloodwort (Sanguinaria Canadensis), so named from its crimson juice, is a characteristic plant of the northern division.
1872 D. G. Rossetti House of Life (1882) li With tear-spurge wan, with blood-wort burning red.
1909 G. J. Drews Unfired Food 306 Yarrow is also called milfoil, green arrow, thousand leaf, carpenters grass, bloodwort, old man's pepper and soldier's woundwort.
1946 Sewage Wks. Jrnl. 18 660/2 A plague of bloodwort..had destroyed the recreational value of the lake at his summer camp.
2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 62/1 Achillea millefolium..bloodwort.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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